told 247Sports <\/a>Saturday postgame. \u201cWe wanted to find out what Corey had. You never know until you put him out there.\u201d<\/p>\nVersus Boston College, Dailey finished 11 of 25 (44%) for 119 yards, a score and two interceptions.<\/p>\n
Following his first-play long touchdown, Dailey went 10 of 24 with 118 yards over the game\u2019s final 59 minutes, 42 seconds.<\/p>\n
Narduzzi must compare that to Geriner\u2019s outing vs. UNC, in which Geriner was 27 of 44 for 219 yards, no touchdowns and two picks.<\/p>\n
There is also the long-term consideration of Geriner playing in his final season of collegiate eligibility, while Dailey could be in the quarterbacks room at Pitt for more years to come.<\/p>\n
Whether getting Dailey maximum experience as Heintschel navigates a long road to recovery will factor into Narduzzi\u2019s decision remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
But following back-to-back losses, Pitt\u2019s quarterback situation is only the tip of the iceberg for a team seemingly at risk of imploding following a 5-0 start.<\/p>\n
Big plays let up by Pitt\u2019s secondary were tolerable warts in the 35-33 win over Virginia Tech, when Heintschel was lost.<\/p>\n
A week later, the Panthers surrendered two more crippling long passes to the Tar Heels, both of which preceded touchdowns in an eventual four-point loss.<\/p>\n
The performance of Pitt\u2019s secondary sank even deeper Saturday at Boston College, as an Eagles offense that entered the game last in the ACC in passing threw for 295 yards.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Mason McKenzie, while throwing two interceptions, had completions of 53 and 69 yards to Landon Wright.<\/p>\n
He hit Javarius Green and Johnathan Montague for separate gains of 23 yards.<\/p>\n
Crippling Pitt\u2019s defense all afternoon was third-down effectiveness, as Boston College converted 8 of 13 tries.<\/p>\n
Tellingly, when turning to the pass on third down, the Eagles moved the sticks on 6 of 7 tries, gashing Pitt for 89 yards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey got after our safety a couple times for two explosives,\u201d Narduzzi said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to play better. We\u2019ve got to get reroute(d) on them. \u2026 We\u2019ve got to react better, we\u2019ve got to play better and they made plays that we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penalties also cast a long shadow over Pitt\u2019s attempts to leave Chestnut Hill, Mass., with a win.<\/p>\n
On the day, the Panthers were flagged 13 times for 133 yards.<\/p>\n
Seven were holding calls (five offensive, two defense), another two were facemasks, three were defensive pass interference whistles, while Pitt also had an illegal block in the back penalty.<\/p>\n
Three penalties gifted Boston College a first down, two of which \u2014 pass interference calls on Shawn Lee and Shadarian Harrison in the end zone \u2014 set the Eagles up with a fresh set of downs deep in Panthers territory.<\/p>\n
In under a week, the Panthers will travel to face arguably their most talented opponent on the 2026 schedule.<\/p>\n
Between now and then, Pitt\u2019s coaches and players have significant recalibrating to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of football to be played,\u201d Narduzzi said. \u201cWe got a lot of ball to play right now. We\u2019ll go down and play a great Miami team and just take one game at a time. We\u2019re not going to look in the rearview mirror. Our guys will stick together as a family like we always do, and we\u2019ll fight.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Pat Narduzzi and Kade Bell opted to turn to then-true freshman Mason Heintschel at quarterback last season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-431309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}